new albums purchased thread

[Andrew_TSKS]

Cinerama, Peel Sessions (not the boxed set)

you know, as much as i love the wedding present, i have never even heard cinerama. hannah, others who have heard them--am i blowing it?

[Ah_Pook]

i got like a hundred free records from this guy today. a lot of crap, but a lot of good stuff too. some good stuff that stuck out at me on the first skim through the stack:

Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum
Ray Parker Jr. - Sex And The Single Man
Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters theme 12" single
Bobby Brown - Ghostbusters 2 song 12" single
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Jethro Tull - Passion Play
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
Tammy Wynette - Stand By Your Man
Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson
Grand Funk - Live Album
Ohio Players - Fire
Ohio Players - Skin Tight
Ben E. King - Spanish Harlem
Steve Perry - Street Talk
Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
Journey - Escape
Isley Bros - The Heat Is On
John Cougar - American Fool
Donna Summer - A Love Trilogy
Donna Summer - The Wanderer
Donna Summer - I Remember Yesterday
Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees
ZZ Top - Eliminator
Men At Work - Business As Usual
Aerosmith - Rocks
Boston - Boston
Huey Lewis And The News - Picture This
The Zarkons - Between The Idea And The Reality... Falls The Shadow (no idea what this is, but the art and title have me mad intrigued)
The Doobie Bros - Takin It To The Streets
Bill Withers - Still Bill
Waylon Jennings - Greatest Hits
Kansas - Point Of Know Return
Emerson Lake And Palmer - s/t
Miami Sound Machine - Primitive Love
Gary Wright - The Dream Weaver
The Brothers Johnson - Look Out For #1 (check this album cover, i love it)
MASH soundtrack
John Lennon - Mind Games
Argent - All Together Now
Leon Russell - Carney
Leon & Mary Russell - Wedding Album
Comateens - Deal With It
The Police - Synchronicity


plus a whooooole bunch of random disco/funk/prog/soul looking stuff that ive never heard of

i dunno, im pretty stoked. im always down for free records.

[Babar]

why did he give you 100+ records? cause that's awesome

[Ah_Pook]

he said something like the mailman showed up and gave them to him the other day, and then he didnt really have the time or energy to go through them and come up with somewhere to put them all and so forth. he was just going to throw them away, but thats not something i can allow to happen.


today:

(used $3 woo)

[hannah]

Cinerama, Peel Sessions (not the boxed set)

you know, as much as i love the wedding present, i have never even heard cinerama. hannah, others who have heard them--am i blowing it?

Hey, just saw this. Wish I could be of help, Andrew. I'm a novice, honestly; I was hankering to buy a record, any record, and since I love to death the Wedding Present record I gave Jacob as a birthday gift this past April, I decided to go for what was there and cheap and had a bunch of songs without being a straight-up "best of," which I try to avoid on principle. And after three listens I think it's excellent, exactly the kind of music I love: the sounds of tight pop songs unraveling. (Story: I saw Cinerama in the spring of 2001 at Maxwell's, but by accident. I came for Destroyer, who played maybe five songs solo, including the one with "Hannah, you heard it here first," my favorite lyric [natch] and then stayed for Jenny Toomey and Franklin Bruno, neither of whom I'd ever heard solo, and then stayed for part of Cinerama's set until I was too tired. Ah, eleventh grade.)

[lastclearchance]

(Story: I saw Cinerama in the spring of 2001 at Maxwell's, but by accident. I came for Destroyer, who played maybe five songs solo, including the one with "Hannah, you heard it here first," my favorite lyric [natch] and then stayed for Jenny Toomey and Franklin Bruno, neither of whom I'd ever heard solo, and then stayed for part of Cinerama's set until I was too tired. Ah, eleventh grade.)

If I had known who any of those people were when I was in eleventh grade I woulda so been there.

[hannah]

It was all downhill from there.

[davy]

DON CHAMBERS AND GOAT s/t

bought it last night at the show...i kinda enjoyed them more than the avett brothers! they're a local band in the drive-by truckers vein that i've been meaning to check out for a long time. good stuff. i'll definitely be following them from venue to venue around town for a while. the ghosts of CCR were kickin'.

[auto-da-fey]

[davy]

(my yourmusic selection this month...to replace a copy i sold a couple years ago)

[milesofsparks]

It was all downhill from there.

hannah likes to *pretend* she isn't cool.

[milesofsparks]

And the final piece of the puzzle is that, when tMG returned to Ireland in 2002, ARP played support for their date in Sligo, pictures of which can still be found here.  If you look closely (well, not that closely) you can see pictures of me too, back in my beard-free days.

ha, awesome!  and here I thought you were born bearded.

[Andrew_TSKS]

i'm bored this morning, and i decided to look through those pics again. good lord, ireland is beautiful. i should move there.

[Doctor Bob]

Or could it just have been PH's good camera?

ha, awesome!  and here I thought you were born bearded.

I have an amusing head-shot of me unbearded, taken in June '06 for work purposes.  I occasionally think about posting it for laughs, but haven't done it yet.  Because things once seen can never be un-seen, and I care about you all too much.

OT:



Paul Robeson - Songs of Struggle.

I dropped into Claddagh Records yesterday to see if his On My Journey (looks amazing) had arrived in, which it hadn't, but the guy in the shop played me 'Kevin Barry' from Songs of Struggle, so I said Why not?  It isn't every day you hear that voice sing "In Mountjoy Gaol one Monday morning..."

PS Erik Friedlander's Block Ice & Propane arrived during the week too.  Holy crap.

[WhereTheSlimeLive]

i reserve right to make the new buying things thread.  We must bust this andrew monopoly

[heather]

joy division reissues. all of them. cd format.
control sdtrk.

i'm fucking obsessed right now. help!

[milesofsparks]

PS Erik Friedlander's Block Ice & Propane arrived during the week too.  Holy crap.

yeah?

[Babar]

joy division reissues. all of them. cd format.
control sdtrk.

i'm fucking obsessed right now. help!

all two of them?

[Good Intentions]

They also reissued Substance and some other disc I'd never heard of before, Still, both comps of otherwise unreleased material.

[milesofsparks]

J, the owner of the music store I shop at, tried to tell me how boys and girls isn't as good as separation sunday.  I was all "yeah, I've heard that, but I bought separation sunday last time" so thanks for making me look like I know what I'm talking about, LPTJ.

[Doctor Bob]

PS Erik Friedlander's Block Ice & Propane arrived during the week too.  Holy crap.

yeah?

Yup- astonishing stuff.  It's hardly been out of the CD player since it arrived, especially the first two tracks.

(Or did you think that by 'Holy crap' I meant I didn't like it?  I've just realised that it could possibly be read  two ways.  If so, apologies for the confusion.  It's possibly my favourite of the 4 I know [Maldoror, Grains of Paradise and the new Tzadik solo one with the fancy-but-barely-legible packaging being the other three].)

[milesofsparks]

PS Erik Friedlander's Block Ice & Propane arrived during the week too.  Holy crap.

yeah?

Yup- astonishing stuff.  It's hardly been out of the CD player since it arrived, especially the first two tracks.

(Or did you think that by 'Holy crap' I meant I didn't like it?  I've just realised that it could possibly be read  two ways.  If so, apologies for the confusion.  It's possibly my favourite of the 4 I know [Maldoror, Grains of Paradise and the new Tzadik solo one with the fancy-but-barely-legible packaging being the other three].)

no, it didn't even occur to me that you might not have liked it 

[davy]

THE CHIEFTAINS bells of dublin

...this year's first xmas purchase.

[girl]

Ack! Christmas music is something that's been totally ruined for me by working in retail. It makes me feel stabby.

[lastclearchance]

Ack! Christmas music is something that's been totally ruined for me by working in retail.

Same here.